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An unnamed person sends an email to Clinton’s chief of staff Cheryl Mills. Classification coding will later indicate the person is a secret CIA official. The entire contents of the short email is: “The Director said that the Secretary [Clinton’s] comments at today’s NSC meeting were outstanding and that he echoed them in spades.” “The Director” is a likely reference to Leon Panetta, the CIA director at the time, and “NSC” stands for “National Security Council.”